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^Droge, A.J. și Tabor, J.D. (1992:136) A Noble Death: Suicide and Martyrdom Among Christians and Jews in Antiquity Harper, San Francisco. Citat incorect ca Groge and Tabor (1992:136) de către C. Douzinas în Closs Stephens, A. și Vaughan-Williams, N. (2009:198) Terrorism and the Politics of Response Routledge, Oxon and New York: „in 185 the proconsul of Asia, Arrius Antoninus, was approached by a group of Christians demanding to be executed. The proconsul obliged some of them and then sent the rest away, saying thatif they wanted to kill themselves there was plenty of rope available or cliffs they could jump off.”